Re: [Sheflug] Re: New Front Page

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

> The chances are that in the future web "appliances" will actually be less
> powerful than todays PC's - to make them cheap, and use less power, and
> have you seen the lack of definition on a Web TV? 640x480 is hardly
> possible. While many might argue that the web TV and appliance users won't
> be interested in Linux, they maybe, and we need to reach everyone who
> wants to see the alternative that the GNU, Linux, BSD etc world offers.
> 

A friend reminded me today of a place in Sheffield with a huge number of 
computers who's screens are fixed at 800x600 and can't be changed unless you 
break the administrator account...

All the computers at Hallam Uni are fixed at 800x600 - I'm not sure of the 
reason of this, but thats the way it is. Some computers, I've been told, are 
fixed at 640x480 as the monitors that have don't do any more (these are in 
the Eric Mensforth building).

Hallam Uni does not have the budget to upgrade every single machine, so 
they've taken the lowest common denominator at which a computer is usablem 
and used that globally.

Chris...


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